Noah Shachtman

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

According to the NYPD, it's nobody on their list.

And look, I'm not saying that the garden is unsafe.

I'm not saying that at all.

I'm just saying that they're not using NYPD data.

Not exactly.

According to our sources, the MSG security staff has decided that outside the garden and outside the Beacon Theater and their Radio City musical, that's their jurisdiction too.

And so they have functionally started cosplaying as cops in their neighborhoods.

Well, first of all, I just have to say the NYPD was like, we don't have anything to do with this.

We don't know what those guys are up to, which is weird.

But secondly, I don't know what they're allowed to do like legally, but here's what the lawsuit says.

They go after like those guys that sell merch, unauthorized merch outside of concerts and outside of the garden.

They will go and bust those people.

They will go after scalpers who might be still trying to do their hustle, but they'll do more than that.

What the lawsuit says and what we had garden staffers confirm to us was that if a protest happened to go by the garden or one of the other venues, that they'd kind of wiggle their way into the protest and maybe do a little observations on the people protesting.

They at least have that capability.

There's at least the motivation and the precedent to keep watch and to listen in as people move in and around the neighborhoods.

I even talked to some sources, some people who worked for the garden, who say that they're afraid or they've got to be very careful when they go to like local bars.